Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 2 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 3 | In his first Annual Report seven years earlier , he had mentioned that 16 boys had gained Higher School Certificates ; this year the number was 41 ; and the following year no fewer than 18 Old Stopfordians obtained degrees at Cambridge alone . |
| 4 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 5 | He does know that two weeks ago , his mother has died of starvation . |